US Patent Issued to Mirka on March 31 for "Dust extractor having an electric outlet connectable to a power tool" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,791, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mirka Ltd (Jepua, Finland).

"Dust extractor having an electric outlet connectable to a power tool" was invented by Tommy Linqvist (Nykarleby, Finland) and Jan-Anders Westerlund (Jakobstad, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dust extractor having an autostart functionality that includes: a motor and a fan to generate an air flow; an electric outlet connectable to a power tool; a control system; a user interface; and a current measuring unit to measure electric current of the outlet, wherein the control system is arranged to: measure a first representative current value of the electric ou...